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138th Infantry Regiment

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Code name: 烈一〇三五三
Higher formation: 第三一師団
Depot district: 奈良
Raised at: 奈良
Colours received: 昭13.5.23
Commanding officer: 鳥飼恒男
Main theatres: Not known
Action: the Imphal operation

War record

After being disbanded, re-formed at Nara→under the 31st Division, given the defence of the lower Chindwin in northern Burma→March 1944, crossed the Chindwin in the Imphal operation and advanced on Kohima→worn down by attacks from British tank units while ammunition and food failed to reach it→it is recorded that the men staved off hunger with rations captured from British-Indian food stores at Kohima

According to the book, with neither ammunition nor food getting through, the regiment was worn down by British material superiority, and staved off starvation on rations from a captured enemy food depot.

Source: The Regimental Histories of the Pacific War, 戦史の本誌面73

Men of this unit

牟田口廉也中将第一五軍司令官としてコヒマ攻略を命令・七月に全軍後退を決心
佐藤幸徳中将第三一師団長としてコヒマ三叉路攻撃を命令
山内正文中将第一五師団長。コヒマ攻略を担当
島之江又次郎少佐第三大隊長。コヒマ郊外の要点を占領

この部隊の紙片は、まだ蔵にありません。

This card is made only of facts copied from one book. Only what can be confirmed against a primary source will one day become 🟢. An empty field means the book does not say. Nothing has been filled in by guesswork.

Source: 戦史の本誌面73

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